The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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... dames and mighty earls ; He had play'd it to King Charles the Good , When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd , yet fear'd , to try The long - forgotten melody . Amid the strings his fingers stray'd , And an uncertain ...
... dames and mighty earls ; He had play'd it to King Charles the Good , When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd , yet fear'd , to try The long - forgotten melody . Amid the strings his fingers stray'd , And an uncertain ...
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... Tevoit clear ; Ere break of day , " the Warrior ' gan say , 66 Again will I be here : And safer by none may thy errand be done , Than , noble dame , by me ; Letter nor line know I never a one , Were't CANTO I. ] 57 THE LAST MINSTREL .
... Tevoit clear ; Ere break of day , " the Warrior ' gan say , 66 Again will I be here : And safer by none may thy errand be done , Than , noble dame , by me ; Letter nor line know I never a one , Were't CANTO I. ] 57 THE LAST MINSTREL .
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... Dame ! 3 Some of his skill he taught to me ; And , Warrior , I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three , And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone : But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for having but thought ...
... Dame ! 3 Some of his skill he taught to me ; And , Warrior , I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three , And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone : But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for having but thought ...
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... dames , methinks I see You listen to my minstrelsy ; Your waving locks ye backward throw , And sidelong bend your necks of snow : Ye ween to hear a melting tale , Of two true lovers in a dale ; And how the Knight , with tentler fire ...
... dames , methinks I see You listen to my minstrelsy ; Your waving locks ye backward throw , And sidelong bend your necks of snow : Ye ween to hear a melting tale , Of two true lovers in a dale ; And how the Knight , with tentler fire ...
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... Dame Maudlin's silken tire , And , as Sym Hall stood by the fire , He lighted the match of his bandelier , 1 1 Bandelier , belt for carrying ammunition . 1 And wofully scorch'd the hackbuteer.1 It may be hardly thought CANTO III . ] THE ...
... Dame Maudlin's silken tire , And , as Sym Hall stood by the fire , He lighted the match of his bandelier , 1 1 Bandelier , belt for carrying ammunition . 1 And wofully scorch'd the hackbuteer.1 It may be hardly thought CANTO III . ] THE ...
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ancient appeared Appendix arms ballad band Bard Baron Beattisons beneath betwixt blood Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chief Clair clan courser Cranstoun Dacre Dame dead Deloraine Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Edinburgh English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest father friends hall hand Harden harp heard highnes horse James Jedburgh King knight Knight of Liddesdale Lady Ladye lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale literary Lord manner Melrose Melrose Abbey Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-troopers Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem poet poetical poetry ride rode romance Roslin round rung sayd scene Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd Selkirkshire shulde Sir Walter Sir William slain song spear spirit stanzas steed stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale theyme Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tion tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound